Speaker. yesterday Members of the House and Senate welcomed Natan Shcharansky to the Capitol rotunda. I personally was deeply moved by Mr. Shcharanskys description of his ordeal as a Soviet refusenik and his commitment to helping the 400.000 Soviet Jews still denied their right to emigrate. He gave a stern warning to Congress: we must never settle for an agreement where our goal of freeing all of the Soviet refuseniks is compromised. We must never lower our expectations or adopt the illusion that the Soviets will follow through on their commitment to respect human rights without our continuous prodding. The United States and the rest of the free world must persistently demand freedom for the Soviet Jews. Recently. I asked my colleagues to sign a letter to Secretary Gorbachev on behalf of Veniamin Bogomolny. who has been trying to emigrate from the Soviet Union for over 19 years. I would like to thank my colleagues who signed this letter and I would like to take this time to describe the plight of Veniamin and his wife. Tatiana.
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